A school teacher was shot and wounded while waiting for a bus in Pattani's Yarang district on Sunday.
Pol Col Tuandir Juthanant, the Yarang police chief, said the shooting occurred shorly before 1pm.
While Chula Woma, 33, a teacher at Ban Kaen Thao School in tambon Ko Chan of Mayo district, was waiting for a bus to Yala at a bus stop on Pattani-Yala road near Ban Ton Kham in tambon Mo Mawi when two men passed by on a motorcycle. The pillion rider opened fire at him with a .38 pistol.
The teacher was hit four times in the body, a leg and an arm. He was taken to hospital, but there is no word on his condition.